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Little Cayman’s rock iguana population triples after feral-cat cull
The population of Sister Islands rock iguanas on Little Cayman has tripled in the past three years after a cull of feral cats on the island, a recent census of the reptiles has shown.
Surveys of the iguana population, which have been carried out on Little Cayman since 2014, had indicated steadily declining numbers. In 2022, the Department of Environment, with funding from a Darwin+ grant, began capturing and culling cats, which had been hunting young iguanas.
“After removal of most of the feral cats on the island, the rock iguana population on Little Cayman has more than tripled in three years, from a low of about 1,000 individuals in 2022 to about 3,500 in 2025,” the DoE noted this week.
